A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction by Susan Edwards
During her brief lifetime, (1759 – 1797), Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher and feminist, was active among the foremost circles of 18th Century intellectual and radical thought. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is her most important polemical work. She argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, and that both men and women should be treated as rational beings within a social order founded on reason. After two ill-fated affairs, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin; their daughter, Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), would go on to write Frankenstein.
Paperback 220 pp
ISBN 978956395245
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